Warrior diplomat : : a Green Beret's battles from Washington to Afghanistan / / Michael G. Waltz ; foreword by Peter Bergen.
Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have dealt with th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | [Lincoln] : : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,, [2014] |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 376 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- State of the war : Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Arabs, Afghans, and Americans : the war of ideas
- The Tagab Valley : patrolling to ambush
- The clinic in Achin : development dilemmas
- The road to Musa Qala : the Taliban are back
- The French in Maruf : a pawn in a diplomatic game
- Operation Perth : war by consensus
- Back to Washington : the Pentagon and the White House
- The Mangal tribe : protecting people we can't access
- The elder in Khost : risk aversion and the cost of inaction
- Night raid : the catch-and-release detention system
- Blackbeard rising : the Afghan National Army Commandos
- On the border with Pakistan : the rocket's red glare
- The tribes of Chamkani : the community defense initiative
- Washington again : wishing the problem away.